ICS Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

The post holder will be required to work across both primary and secondary care. The post holder will be responsible for coordinating and navigating the patient across Intermediate Care Service pathways to ensure effective discharge planning of complex patients who are deemed to be medically optimised including facilitating and influencing the discharge or admission avoidance process. The post holder will be responsible for improving patient health outcomes and ensuring efficient bed utilization and patient flow. The Mental Health Nurse will need to be able to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team promoting patient centered care.

Within the Acute/Community the post holder will be assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care demonstrating evidence based/best practice, considering own clinical confidence and competence within their sphere of mental health practice. The post holder will need to demonstrate the ability to implement enhanced programmers and maintain high standards of clinical intervention to provide Nursing care for service users accessing the range of intermediate care services. PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE A HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of an integrated service inclusive of health and social care staff, working collaboratively with both primary and secondary care professionals. The post holder shall act as an expert resource for the multidisciplinary team and work collaboratively with Care Home staff and management for all patients that are placed onto Pathway One, Two or Three and awaiting further health and social care assessments.

The post holder will review and assess patients that are Walsall residents or have a registered Walsall G.P on ICS Pathways One, Two or Three with an identified Mental Health condition or need.

The post holder should be able to identify the key stages where the patient will require interventions that influence their care, this shall include, but not limited, to contributing to the implementation and monitoring of assessment tools to ensure optimum safety and care in relation to Mental Health conditions.

The post Holder shall empower staff in their personal and professional development to undertake a greater range of skills to modernise and improve patient care, including the uptake of training related to Mental Health conditions.

The post holder will be a source of specialist knowledge and expertise, providing support to the integrated team in their day-to-day management of patients who present with Mental Health conditions. Excellent communication skills are essential for this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Ensure resources such as 1:1 care in a secondary care setting is used in a cost effective and efficient manner.
• To make initial response to complaints following the Trust’s complaints procedure in line with the Trust policy.
• To allocate workload to junior members of the team when appropriate and in the absence of the Team Manager.
• To support junior member of the team in caseload management.
• To line manage Band 3-5 where appropriate.
• Work with hospital and community managers to collect activity data that will inform and guide service delivery.

• Work with Team Manager to develop `Risk Management’ procedures that enhance continuity of patient care and minimise the risks associated with discharge / transfer of care to the primary setting and ongoing care in the community.
• Act in a professional manner always whilst on Walsall Healthcare NHS Trusts business and demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, ensuring compliance to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust policies and procedures.
• Participate and lead in multidisciplinary team meetings, decision support tool assessments, continuing health checklists, joint assessments with the community Mental Health team and best interests’ meetings where appropriate.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership, mentorship and clinical expertise to the staff caring for patients with Mental Health conditions within ICS.
• Provide leadership on the delivery of evidence based best practice for Mental Health conditions.
• To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information
• To play a proactive role in quality and service improvement and work closely with the ICS team manager and the Mental Health matron and multi-disciplinary team will contribute to the monitoring and auditing of clinical standards of care of patients on the ICS pathway.
• To take part regular performance appraisal, PDR and clinical supervision.